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About this resource
Purpose
A collection of stories centered around the historical and ongoing legacies of underrepresented mathematicians.
This resource can be used to incorporate a more inclusive and nuanced depiction of diversity within and across underrepresented groups in mathematics.
Indigenous Knowledge & Mathematics
Knitting & Cryptography
Mathematics & Arts
Historians of Mathematics
Historical Math Textbooks
Mathematical Societies & Institutions
Mathematical Traditions
Theorems by Women Mathematicians
Biographies
social media
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Mathematician and pianist. Cheng She is the scientist in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Location: North Carolina | Subjects: Health, Mathematics
Maria Mayorga is a professor of personalized medicine in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at North Carolina State University.
Updated 04/15/21 | Location: California | Subjects: Mathematics
Francis Su is the Benediktsson-Karwa professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and past president of the Mathematical Association of America.
Updated 04/15/21 | Location: Maine | Subjects: Mathematics
Adriana Salerno is an associate professor of mathematics and department chair at Bates College.
Dr. Shohini Ghose
Department of Physics and Computer Science
Wilfrid Laurier University
Updated 10/01/21 | Location: California | Subjects: Mathematics, Science
Mariel Vazquez is a professor of mathematics and of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of California, Davis.
Updated 04/15/21 | Location: Michigan | Subjects: Mathematics, Medicine
Trachette L. Jackson is professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Jennifer Jakobi
School of Health and Exercise Sciences
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Dr. Laleh Behjat
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Calgary
Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003)
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)
Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992)
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Flossie Wong-Staal (born 1947)
Williamina Fleming (1857-1911),
Catalina Albury
https://www.onenorthend.ca
Dr Jeanette Scissum
https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/jeanette-scissum/
Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924-2017)
Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948)
Vera Cooper Rubin (1928-2016)
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997)
Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914-2015)
Klara Dan von Neumann (1911-1963)
oseph Lance Casila
https://oge.mit.edu/graddiversity/msrp/2018-msrp-interns/joseph-lance-casila/
https://woc.aises.org/content/joseph-lance-casila-guamanian-filipino-university-pennsylvania
Nation:
Saddle Lake Cree Nation
https://www.aboriginalaccess.ca/adults/role-models/students/thorsen-0
Colleen Legzdins
Civil Engineer & Visual Artist
http://www.sfu.ca/wwest/projects/best-of-the-WWEST/episode-44-leslie-leong.html
Rahael Koshy Jalan
Alexandra Bella
Tshiamo Molefe
Kory Wilson
Pradeep Jalan
https://twitter.com/scimaven?lang=en
https://cms.math.ca/about-the-cms/inclusive-mathematics/
https://www.uwlax.edu/profile/tdas/
A More INCLUSIVE LOOK ON MATH HISTORY
Incorporating diverse perspectives on contributions to mathematics - past and present.
Enheduanna
https://www2.math.uconn.edu/~glaz/My_Articles/EnheduannaPrincessPriestessPoetAndMathematician.MathIntelligencer.2020.pdf
Hypatia
Bernardi, G. (2016). The unforgotten sisters : female astronomers and scientists before Caroline Herschel. Springer.
Plato
https://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Plato
Maria the Prophetess
https://www.thoughtco.com/mary-the-jewess-biography-3530346
Aglaonice
https://stemstory.wixsite.com/blog/aglaonice
Ban Zhao
https://femmesetsavoirs.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/23.html
Sutayta Al-Mahāmali
https://findingada.com/blog/2018/12/18/women-in-stem-advent-calendar-day-18-sutayta-al-mahamali/
Basotho women*
Gerdes P. (2008) Mathematics in Africa South of the Sahara. In: Selin H. (eds) Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4425-0_8736
Peter Torpey
See Blind_Scientists
Altea Lorenzo Arribas
https://www.bioss.ac.uk/people/altea.html
https://statistics.berkeley.edu/150w/bin-yu
Dawn A. Lott
https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/dawn-a-lott/
Dionne Swift
https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/gloria-f-gilmer/
Karlie Alinta Noon
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41887971
Karlie Alinta Noon
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41887971
Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver
https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/jacqueline-m-hughes-oliver/
Marieme Ngom
https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/marieme-ngom/
Monir
https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Monir-Shahroudy-Farmanfarmaian/7435583058814893/Biography
Nalini Joshi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b-hqNlPIsk
Olivia Prosper
https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/olivia-prosper/
Suzanne L. Weekes
https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/suzanne-l-weekes/
Gaston M. N’Guerekata
https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/gaston-m-nguerekata/
Dan Kucerovsky
http
spies-180970034/
Fat Lam
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
Gary CornelL
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
Geerat J. Vermeij
See Blind_Scientists
Florence Glenfield
https://ualbertaicr.wordpress.com/interview-with-dr-florence-glanfield/
Automn Kent
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/q-a-with-autumn-kent/
Concha Gómez
https://www.science.org/content/article/concha-g-mez-math-guru-women-and-minorities
Anthony Bonato
https://math.ryerson.ca/~abonato/
Cary Supalo
https://independencescience.com/our-history/
Dan Kucerovsky
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
David Cornwell
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/david-cornwell/
David A. James
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
James Nickerson
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
Jamila Abass
https://www.one.org/international/blog/female-african-scientists-list/
Dimitri Kanevsky
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
James Nickerson
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
Jacob Thadathil
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
Edward Doolittle
https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/indigenous/weweni/weweni-2018/what-is-indigenous-mathematics.html
Elizabeth Bentley
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-code-breakers-unmasked-soviet-
Ingrid Daubechies
https://scholars.duke.edu/person/ingrid.daubechies
Hamied Haroon
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/hamied-haroon/
Henry Wedler
See Blind_Scientists
Homer Bechtell
cis.jhu.edu
Daisy Shearer
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/daisy-shearer
Jazmin Scarlett
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/jazmin-scarlett
Jessica Boland
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/jessica-boland
Wang Zhenyi
https://massivesci.com/articles/wang-zhenyi-poetry-venus-math/
Altea Lorenzo Arribas
https://www.bioss.ac.uk/people/altea.html
John Ambrose Fleming
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/john-ambrose-fleming
John Cornforth
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/john-cornforth
John Dalton
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/john-dalton
Karen Horton Staley
cis.jhu.edu
Karen Uhlenbeck
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Uhlenbeck_Karen/
Kenneth O’Neill
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
Kevin Hulsing
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
Kyle S Whipple
https://500queerscientists.com/kyle-s-whipple/
Lawrence Baggett
See Bernard_Morin_2
Lawrence Somer
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
LISA LUNNEY BORDEN
https://www.mystfx.ca/bachelor-of-education/lisa-lunney-borden-phd
Louis Antoine
See Bernard_Morin_2
Lucy Campbell
https://people.math.carleton.ca/~campbell/
Madame Levengle
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii
Mahadeo Sukhai
See Blind_Scientists
Mary Jackson
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/jackson-mary-winston-1921-2005/
Maryam Mirzakhani
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mirzakhani/
Mohammad Obiedat
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
Naheda Sahtout
See Blind_Scientists
Nicholas Saunderson
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/nicholas-saunderson
Nikolaas Tinbergen FRS
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/nicolaas-tinbergen/
Norberto Salinas
https://www.ams.org/notices/200210/comm-morin.pdf
Ozak Esu
https://www.one.org/international/blog/female-african-scientists-list/
Quarraisha Abdool Karim
https://www.aasciences.africa/fellow/abdool-karim-quarraisha
Ruth Fairclough
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/ruth-fairclough
Sam Howison
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
Sara Rankin
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/sara-rankin
Sherien Elagroudy
https://globalyoungacademy.net/sherien/
Sina Bahram
https://www.sinabahram.com/speaking.php
Sirong Zhang
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
Stacey R. Smith
https://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/
Stephanie DeLuca
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/resources/highschool/chemmatters/past-issues/2021-2022/october-2021/profile-stephanie-deluca.html
Steve Baigent
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
Tanja Lange
https://www.hyperelliptic.org/tanja/
Terence Lyons
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
The Candaces of Meroe
https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Candaces_of_Meroe/
Tilak Ratnanather
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
Wanda Díaz-Merced
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/wanda-díaz-merced
Wojciech Jaworski
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
YoungJu Choie
https://yjchoie.postech.ac.kr
Zachary J. Battles
http://www.cis.jhu.edu/~tilak/newdeafmathphds.pdf
Al-ʻIjliyyah al-Asturlabi (or Miriam al-Asturabi)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160813104714/http://www.muslimwomenscouncil.org.uk/how-astronomers-and-instrument-makers-in-muslim-civilisation-expanded-our-knowledge-of-the-universe/
Leonardo Da Vinci
https://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Leonardo_Da_Vinci
Leonhard Euler
https://www.ams.org/notices/200210/comm-morin.pdf
Benjamin Banneker
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/special/banneker-benjamin.html
Caroline Herschel
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/herschel.htm
Wang Zhenyi
https://scientificwomen.net/women/zhenyi-wang-98
Sophie Germain
V.Katz_Sophie-Germain'!A1
Ada Lovelace
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lovelace/
Florence Nightingale
https://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Florence_Nightingale
Charlotte Angas Scott
cis.jhu.edu
Susan La Flesche Picotte
https://findingada.com/blog/2018/12/03/women-in-stem-advent-calendar-day-3-dr-susan-la-flesche-picotte/
Harold Brewer Hartley
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/harold-brewer-hartley
Ada K. Dietz
https://fiberarts.org/design/articles/algebra.php5
John Maynard Keynes
https://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=John_Maynard_Keynes
Solomon Lefschetz
https://www.math.utah.edu/awmchapter/files/CelebratingMathematiciansWithDisabilities.pdf
Solomon Lefschetz
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/solomon-lefschetz
Euphemia Lofton Haynes
https://15years.elhaynes.org/euphemia-lofton-haynes/
Elbert Frank Cox
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cox_Elbert/
Pavel Alexandrov
https://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pavel_Alexandrov
Pavel Alexandrov
http://queerhistory.blogspot.com/2011/05/pavel-sergeevich-aleksandrov-may-7-1896.html
M. C. Escher
https://www.ams.org/notices/201006/rtx100600706p.pdf
Elsie MacGill
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cDHts3G2LM0J:https://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/download/218/208/310+&cd=19&hl=fr&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=safari
Mary G Ross
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/maryross.htm
Dorothy Vaughan
https://www.nasa.gov/content/dorothy-vaughan-biography
Dorothy Hodgkin FRS
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/dorothy-hodgkin
Alan Turing
https://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Alan_Turing
Cora Ratto de Sadosky
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/sadosky.htm
Hermine Kalutsyan
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/kulutsyan.htm
John Burnside
https://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=John_Burnside
Abraham Nemeth
https://www.math.utah.edu/awmchapter/files/CelebratingMathematiciansWithDisabilities.pdf
Katherine G Johnson
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Johnson_Katherine/
Phyllis Latour Doyle
https://cryptologicfoundation.org/what-we-do/stimulate/women-in-cryptology.html/title/-phyllis-latour-doyle-the-forgotten-spy-whose-knitting-helped-pave-the-way-for-d-day
Annie T. Randall
https://womeninstatshistory.blog/annie-t-randall-1925-2021/
John Forbes Nash Jr.
https://www.math.utah.edu/awmchapter/files/CelebratingMathematiciansWithDisabilities.pdf
Shakuntala Devi
https://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Shakuntala_Devi
Gladys Mae Brown West
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/gladys-mae-west-1930/
Bernard_Morin_1
https://www.math.utah.edu/awmchapter/files/CelebratingMathematiciansWithDisabilities.pdf
Bernard_Morin_2
https://www.ams.org/notices/200210/comm-morin.pdf
Ubiratan D'Ambrosio
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/333875059.pdf
Grace Alele Williams
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/williams.htm
Bhama Srinivasan
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/sriniv.htm
Gloria Conyers
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hewitt/
Shirley Mathis McBay
https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/shirley-mathis-mcbay/
Norman P.Herzberg
https://research.usask.ca/herzberg/
James Stewart
https://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=James_D._Stewart
Raman Parimala
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/parimala.htm
Sun-Yung Alice Chang
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Chang/
Chuzo Okuda
cis.jhu.edu
Linda B. Hayden
https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/linda-hayden/
Lai-Sang Young
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/lsyoung.htm
Dimitri Kanevsky
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/champions/stem-equality-for-americans-with-disabilities/dimitri-kanevsky
Caryn Linda Navy
https://www.math.utah.edu/awmchapter/files/CelebratingMathematiciansWithDisabilities.pdf
Daina Taimiņa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1TBZhd-sN0
Clare Halliday
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/clare-halliday
Daina Taimiņa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1TBZhd-sN0
Aissa Wade
https://nsesafoundation.org/stem-wow-aissa/
Carolina Araujo
https://www.quantamagazine.org/carolina-araujo-is-building-a-network-of-women-in-mathematics-20190122/
Chelsea Walton
https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/chelsea-walton/
Sang-Mook Lee
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/scientists-with-disabilities/sang-mook-lee
Arlie Petters
https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/arlie-petters/
Ma. Louise Antonette Navarro De Las Peñas
https://archium.ateneo.edu/magisterial-lectures/30
Manil Suri
https://queerbio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Manil_Suri
Francisca Nneka Okeke
https://www.one.org/international/blog/female-african-scientists-list/
Emmanuel Giroux
http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/communiques/2015/Octobre/CommuniqueEmmanuelGirouxUMI-CRM.html
A. G. Vitushkin
https://www.ams.org/notices/200210/comm-morin.pdf
Verdiana Grace Masanja
https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/masanja.htm
Rose Dieng-Kuntz
https://findingada.com/blog/2018/12/19/women-in-stem-advent-calendar-day-19-dr-rose-dieng-kuntz/